Aberjhani's Blog: Notes of a 21st Century Digital Scribe - Posts Tagged "art"

Writing professional reviews about the works of other creative artists is an artform in itself, and few have mastered that artform so brilliantly as Zinta Aistars, the author of threee books composed in the Latvian language and the much adored editor-in-chief of THE SMOKING POET E-zine. Ms. Aistar’s most recent contribution to this specialized literary craft focuses on a title that features the work of not one, but two creative artists, and may be enjoyed at these urls:
http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id15.html

http://zintareviews.blogspot.com/2009...

As readers will see, Ms. Aistars nearly outdoes herself taking on the challenge of writing with the keenest aesthetic perception and style about a book that many have described as two in one: ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love. What makes Aistar’s review so profound in this instance are her balanced insights into the book’s two complimentary mediums––fine visual art combined with poetry and essays––and the manner in which she blends those insights into her own superb literary flavors.
As uncanny as Aistar’s gift in this area may seem, in some ways it is only natural considering she is a daughter of acclaimed artist Viestarts Aistars; and, has written previously about how she inherited from her father the impulse to create but has expressed that impulsed through literary art rather than visual.

And then there is what she does as the editor-in-chief of Smoking Poet: identify and showcase the modern voices and visions giving memorable creative substance to New Millennium art and literature. It seems inappropriate to quote a review of a review of my own work so I will resist doing so. Instead, please allow me to invite you to click or paste the above links and discover and enjoy the thrilling world and works of Zinta Aistars .


Aberjhani
The American Poet Who Went Home Again

Following its publication almost a year ago, ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love won continuous critical acclaim, achieved commercial success, and generated exhibitions of art from the book. These fortuitous events have prompted a 40 percent off sale that will drop the acclaimed gift book's regular price from $39.95 to $23.97 at the AuthorsDen Bookstore from March 5 to March 10, 2009 at this url: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/vieww... .

The book's creators have supported the limited time discount "as a statement of appreciation to those individuals who have carried ELEMENTAL all over the world and out of a sense of solidarity with everyone else on the planet currently rising to the challenge of our current economic issues."

They have also set aside a number of copies for donation to libraries. Any library interested in receiving the book should submit the request to Aberjhani via AuthorsDen or his Amazon.com profile. Donation requests will need to be verified.

In addition to the sale on AuthorsDen, ELEMENTAL is currently available at the following locations: Barnes and Noble; Black Books Plus; The Book Lady (912-233-3628); The Diaspora Market Place (912-232-2626); The I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium SC (803) 536-7174; The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum (912) 231-8900); and The Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts Gift Shop (912) 790-8831.